Recovery is a Journey…Enjoy the Trip

Recovery is a Journey…Enjoy the Trip.

So how does your recover-strategy-goal-setting prepare you to enter into the journey of recovery?

Say, you’ve had a heart attack, actually your heart has been attacked; not your physical, anatomical heart, but your breakable, emotional heart.

The personal heart that grows weary, the hardened heart, the heartless one, the cold heart, the heart that aches, that stands still, that leaps with joy and the one who has lost heart; yes, your very human heart.

So, where do we start our recovery-strategy-goal-setting?

Lets start where most of us found ourselves in addictions. In that place of being hard of heart and not caring any more. Apathy and indifference were our constant companions. Despair hung around the corner. It was our survival mode in order to remain alive.

‘If addiction is the time of the hardened heart. Then hope is the fuel of the recovery heart’.

Develop Your Self-Help Goal Setting

Effective Recovery-Strategy-Goal-Setting can win serenity and sobriety for you.

Become the addiction and recovery expert for your personal sobriety and serenity journey.

The first premise to consider in Recovery-Strategy-Goal-Setting is that your recovery from addictive behavior is rooted in a simple, but profound realization which you should never let slip from your view.

You may have been diagnosed with an addictions disease label, but, whether it is alcoholism, drug addiction, or another addictive disorder involving sex, food or gambling, you are still first and foremost, a human being.

Like a stone thrown into the center of a placid lake, this simple human fact affects every aspect of your recovery-strategy-goal-setting.

Those of us who have been diagnosed with an addictive behavior are not objects to acted upon. We are fully human subjects who can act, and in acting, change our situation.

As humans we can speak for ourselves. Don’t let that right slip from your control.

This is why our site says as part of your Recovery-Strategy-Goal-Setting: Let Self-Help knowledge become your Addictions Recovery Ace-In-The-Hole.

You are a self-determining organism. You can take a stand about what addictive craving is distressing you.

You need not be a passive victim of your addiction, disease, or illness.

Hope is not just a feel-good word.

Hope and physical life are intertwined for our survival. They are bound at the hip. The loss of hope will cause a deep sense of hopelessness, of despair, to settle over our human hearts.

Even in heartbreak, we must maintain a glimmer of hope, in order to survive the internal mindscape struggle that is at the heart of this dark night of the soul, our addiction despair.

Yes, there is risk. Because under your hardened heart lies your breaking heart. How much suffering can your breaking heart hold before it shatters.

Yet it is only you who has the power to take the risk, to care about something. Something as simple as being sure your hair is combed, or your clothes are clean. That you have breakfast.

Little things. Small steps, but, with great significance in moving toward caring, toward recovery from your addictive behavior. It has to matter to you. Resolutions should offer results which touch the personal core of your being.

Practical resolutions which move you toward maintaining sobriety and abstinence. Ones which encourage you to rejoin and fully participate in the human community again.

That is what your Recovery-Strategy-Goal-Setting is all about. A start as simple as a toothbrush.

Addiction-Embodied-Brain-Mind-Disease is treatable with a holistic plan including medication, behavior therapy, social services, rehabilitation and an Employment/support component. Addiction-Embodied-Brain-Mind-Disease deserves a full measure of response.

Lets try to understand how it comes about.

The embodied brain-mind disease evolves over time from our initial voluntary acts of personal behavior.

The addiction-embodied-brain-mind-disease list of addictive substances and behaviors looms large. The list includes alcohol, other drugs, other common substances, for example, such as caffeine and sugar.

Behavior covers the spectrum. Eating, sex, loving, cutting, self mutilation, religious activities, work, and as far afield as video-games.

The numbers are immense, with ‘one of every four’ Americans having someone in their family who is fighting with the problem of addiction.

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My name is Alex and thank you for visiting my blog! Raw Recovery chronicles my journey through recovery from an eating disorder and borderline personality disorder and creating a life beyond those challenges. I hope you’ll join me as I navigate life as a recent college graduate, travel the world, and discover who I am meant to be. Thank you for stopping by!